Find out more about the raid plus the overall law enforcement efforts in the early 1990s against hackers called “Operation Sundevil” in the book The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling at http://amzn.to/2zaNfIZ

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]]>http://gamerstavern.org/gamers-tavern-history-check-steve-jackson-games-v-secret-service/feed/0Happy Hour: Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, or The DC Murderversehttp://gamerstavern.org/happy-hour-man-of-steel-and-batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice-or-the-dc-murderverse/
http://gamerstavern.org/happy-hour-man-of-steel-and-batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice-or-the-dc-murderverse/#commentsMon, 18 Apr 2016 11:52:05 +0000http://gamerstavern.org/?p=1090This time, Ross and Darryl talk about the films making up the current DC Expanded Universe aka the Snyderverse aka the Murderverse, Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Spoiler Alert: If you’ve only seen Man of Steel, we don’t get into BvS spoilers until about the 45 minute mark so you’re safe to listen up to that point. After that, we have spoilers for that film plus the comic series The Dark Knight Returns and A Killing Joke.

Hollywood Accounting (Seriously, everyone who is remotely a fan of film should read up on this topic as it explains a LOT)

Suicide Squad Trailer 1

Suicide Squad Trailer 3

]]>http://gamerstavern.org/happy-hour-man-of-steel-and-batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice-or-the-dc-murderverse/feed/61:45:27This time, Ross and Darryl talk about the films making up the current DC Expanded Universe aka the Snyderverse aka the Murderverse, Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Spoiler Alert: If you’ve only seen Man of Steel, we don[...]This time, Ross and Darryl talk about the films making up the current DC Expanded Universe aka the Snyderverse aka the Murderverse, Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Spoiler Alert: If you’ve only seen Man of Steel, we don’t get into BvS spoilers until about the 45 minute mark so you’re safe to listen up to that point. After that, we have spoilers for that film plus the comic series The Dark Knight Returns and A Killing Joke.
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Gamer\'s TavernyesnoEpisode 60: Mike Pondsmithhttp://gamerstavern.org/episode-60-mike-pondsmith/
http://gamerstavern.org/episode-60-mike-pondsmith/#respondThu, 14 Apr 2016 13:22:24 +0000http://gamerstavern.org/?p=1070Legendary game designer Mike Pondsmith joins us to talk about his illustrious career in the gaming industry, from Mekton to Cyberpunk to Teenagers from Outer Space and far, far more and how Mike managed to hit every major pop culture trend before it made it big. Mecha, cyberpunk, anime, steampunk, and more, Mike was there creating games just as the trend started.

]]>http://gamerstavern.org/episode-60-mike-pondsmith/feed/01:54:06Legendary game designer Mike Pondsmith joins us to talk about his illustrious career in the gaming industry, from Mekton to Cyberpunk to Teenagers from Outer Space and far, far more and how Mike managed to hit every major pop culture trend before it[...]Legendary game designer Mike Pondsmith joins us to talk about his illustrious career in the gaming industry, from Mekton to Cyberpunk to Teenagers from Outer Space and far, far more and how Mike managed to hit every major pop culture trend before it made it big. Mecha, cyberpunk, anime, steampunk, and more, Mike was there creating games just as the trend started.
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Teenagers from Outer Space
Cybergeneration
Dragonball Z
GAMA
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Here Kitty Kitty (Darryl)
Pathfinder (Mike)
Dungeons & Dragons 5e (Mike, Ross)
Mekton (Mike)
Amber (Mike)
Firefly (Mike)
Out of the Abyss (Ross)
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada (Ross)
Mike Pondsmith
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PodcastGamer\'s TavernyesnoEpisode 59: Card Games, or My Lotus Petals Are Worth WHAT?!http://gamerstavern.org/episode-59-card-games-or-my-lotus-petals-are-worth-what/
http://gamerstavern.org/episode-59-card-games-or-my-lotus-petals-are-worth-what/#respondThu, 17 Mar 2016 23:50:53 +0000http://gamerstavern.org/?p=1041From Collectible Card Games to Deckbuilders to Living Card Games and more. This week, we go over the different types of card games out there, the history of the genre, and how Magic: The Gathering may have save the industry.

]]>http://gamerstavern.org/episode-59-card-games-or-my-lotus-petals-are-worth-what/feed/00:00:01From Collectible Card Games to Deckbuilders to Living Card Games and more. This week, we go over the different types of card games out there, the history of the genre, and how Magic: The Gathering may have save the industry.
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South Park: Stick of Truth (Darryl)
Alien: Isolation (Darryl)
Codenames (Justin)
Betrayal at House on the Hill (Justin)
Borderlands 2 (Ross) (it took him 25 minutes to start playing after finished)
XCOM 2 (Ross)
Dungeons & Dragons (Ross)
Savage Worlds (Ross)
Star Wars (West End Games) (Ross)
Card Games
Magic: The Gathering
Yu Gi Oh
Pokemon
Hearthstone
Fluxx
Cards Against Humanity
Apples to Apples
Sentinels of the Multiverse
Smash Up
Pathfinder Adventure Card Game
Planet Money Magic: The Gathering episode
Jyhad aka Vampire: The Eternal Struggle
Netrunner
Star Wars CCG
Star Wars LCG
Tanto Cuore
Geek & Sundry Tabletop Day Tanto Cure
Upper Deck Counterfeiting Scandal
Redakai
Skylanders
Puerto Rico
San Juan
Hanabi
We Didn’t Playtest This at All
Twelve Days
Bad Beats
Sushi Go
Love Letter
PodcastGamer\'s TavernyesnoReason for the delayshttp://gamerstavern.org/reason-for-the-delays/
http://gamerstavern.org/reason-for-the-delays/#commentsMon, 14 Mar 2016 10:42:45 +0000http://gamerstavern.org/?p=1039Darryl here. I was doing so well for a while. Getting at least one if not two episodes of the show up every week (including our special premium content). However, I’ve had a health scare recently. At the start of the month, I injured my back. This caused me intense pain and made editing a problem due to focus issues. Just as that was almost healed…I was hospitalized for two days with a heart issue. And all the moving around reinjured my back on top of the issues of my heartrate hitting 180BPM. For those who haven’t experienced it, getting your heart shocked back into proper rhythm fucking sucks.

However, I’m on the way to recovery and the current delay is getting used to my current medication. I hope to have a shorter episode up later this afternoon (with guest Justin Gary talking about card games) and the March premium content episode up by the end of this week. I’m also going to pick back up with negotiations with a few other parties about new programming to bring to Gamer’s Tavern, so hopefully we will have announcements about that by the end of the month.

This has been a very rough year for me personally and I thank all of you for your patience as I work to get Gamer’s Tavern back on track. I also would like to thank my producers, Ross Watson and Brandon Gensemer, for their patience as well in dealing with me while all this has gone on.

]]>http://gamerstavern.org/reason-for-the-delays/feed/1Episode 58: Sword and Sorcery Gameshttp://gamerstavern.org/episode-58-sword-and-sorcery-games/
http://gamerstavern.org/episode-58-sword-and-sorcery-games/#commentsMon, 22 Feb 2016 10:15:42 +0000http://gamerstavern.org/?p=1017From Conan to Elric to Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser to Thieves’ World, the stories of sword and sorcery fantasy have been seminal in defining fantasy gaming. But what about the games based on those stories? What makes the genre different than other types of fantasy gaming? What kind of stories can you tell in the genre? This week, Richard Baker and John Dunn join us to discuss exactly that.

]]>http://gamerstavern.org/episode-58-sword-and-sorcery-games/feed/20:00:01From Conan to Elric to Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser to Thieves’ World, the stories of sword and sorcery fantasy have been seminal in defining fantasy gaming. But what about the games based on those stories? What makes the genre different than ot[...]From Conan to Elric to Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser to Thieves’ World, the stories of sword and sorcery fantasy have been seminal in defining fantasy gaming. But what about the games based on those stories? What makes the genre different than other types of fantasy gaming? What kind of stories can you tell in the genre? This week, Richard Baker and John Dunn join us to discuss exactly that.
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Lamentations of the Flame PrincessPodcastGamer\'s TavernyesnoEpisode 57: Superhero Games Part 2, or Tapioca Showershttp://gamerstavern.org/episode-57-superhero-games-part-ii/
http://gamerstavern.org/episode-57-superhero-games-part-ii/#commentsFri, 12 Feb 2016 03:54:41 +0000http://gamerstavern.org/?p=1010We revisit the topic of superhero roleplaying games. The overlap between Western comic book fans and tabletop gamers, it’s no surprise that superhero games are one of the largest genres of roleplaying games out there. We’ve talked about the different games in Episode 23, but how do you play and run a superhero game? And what impact have the games had on the industry at large?

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Declaration: This episode spends a lot of time talking about Strike Force. Ross Watson (host and producer on Gamer’s Tavern) and Michael Surbrook (co-host of our Keep on the Borderlands 2 live stream) are both heavily involved in the new edition of Strike Force being Kickstarted and Gamer’s Tavern is involved as a backer reward level. Gamer’s Tavern Media has not been compensated and receives no funds from the Strike Force crowdfunding efforts.

]]>http://gamerstavern.org/episode-57-superhero-games-part-ii/feed/11:37:30We revisit the topic of superhero roleplaying games. The overlap between Western comic book fans and tabletop gamers, it’s no surprise that superhero games are one of the largest genres of roleplaying games out there. We’ve talked about [...]We revisit the topic of superhero roleplaying games. The overlap between Western comic book fans and tabletop gamers, it’s no surprise that superhero games are one of the largest genres of roleplaying games out there. We’ve talked about the different games in Episode 23, but how do you play and run a superhero game? And what impact have the games had on the industry at large?
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Justice Machine
DC Adventures
Necessary Evil
Wild Talents
Progenitor
Villains & Vigilantes
Monkey House Legal Defense Fund
BAMF Podcast (Ross and Michael recorded with them along with Steve Kenson about Strike Force just before recording this episode. That episode should be up next week.)
Declaration: This episode spends a lot of time talking about Strike Force. Ross Watson (host and producer on Gamer’s Tavern) and Michael Surbrook (co-host of our Keep on the Borderlands 2 live stream) are both heavily involved in the new edition of Strike Force being Kickstarted and Gamer’s Tavern is involved as a backer reward level. Gamer’s Tavern Media has not been compensated and receives no funds from the Strike Force crowdfunding efforts.
PodcastGamer\'s TavernyesnoEpisode 56: Campaign Setting – Lankhmar, or the Grand Theft Auto of RPG Settingshttp://gamerstavern.org/episode-56-lankhmar/
http://gamerstavern.org/episode-56-lankhmar/#respondThu, 21 Jan 2016 21:33:04 +0000http://gamerstavern.org/?p=984Dating back to the 1930s, Lankhmar may have the oldest pedigree as a gaming setting of all time. Evolving from wargames and eventually becoming a setting for Dungeons & Dragons, Runequest, and Savage Worlds, Lankhmar is the prototype for urban roguish fantasy decades before Waterdeep, Thieves World, or Freeport were a twinkle in their creators’ eyes. Get ready for the original sandbox setting that’s more relevant today than ever before, Lankhmar: The City of Thieves!

]]>http://gamerstavern.org/episode-56-lankhmar/feed/01:49:12Dating back to the 1930s, Lankhmar may have the oldest pedigree as a gaming setting of all time. Evolving from wargames and eventually becoming a setting for Dungeons & Dragons, Runequest, and Savage Worlds, Lankhmar is the prototype for urban r[...]Dating back to the 1930s, Lankhmar may have the oldest pedigree as a gaming setting of all time. Evolving from wargames and eventually becoming a setting for Dungeons & Dragons, Runequest, and Savage Worlds, Lankhmar is the prototype for urban roguish fantasy decades before Waterdeep, Thieves World, or Freeport were a twinkle in their creators’ eyes. Get ready for the original sandbox setting that’s more relevant today than ever before, Lankhmar: The City of Thieves!
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TS Luikart
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Cthulhu Britannica: London
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Darksiders 2 (Darryl)
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition (TS, Ross)
Feng Shui 2 (TS)
Three Cheers for Master (TS)
Shaintar (Ross)
Valkyria Chronicles (Ross)
Grand Theft Auto V (Ross)
Lankhmar: The City of Thieves
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series by Fritz Leiber
Lankhmar Campaign Setting
Deities and Demigods
Savage Lankhmar
Runequest: Lankhmar
The story with the possibly non-consensual sexual encounter: “The Sadness of the Executioner”
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PodcastGamer\'s TavernyesnoEpisode 55: Parody and Homage Gameshttp://gamerstavern.org/episode-55-parody-and-homage-games/
http://gamerstavern.org/episode-55-parody-and-homage-games/#commentsSat, 09 Jan 2016 00:46:40 +0000http://gamerstavern.org/?p=975Gaming has always taken its cues from other fiction, as Dungeons & Dragons itself comes from classic fantasy fiction. But what makes a game an homage to another work of fiction? What parody games are fun to play outside the joke? Where do you draw the line between influence and homage?

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]]>http://gamerstavern.org/episode-55-parody-and-homage-games/feed/20:00:01Gaming has always taken its cues from other fiction, as Dungeons & Dragons itself comes from classic fantasy fiction. But what makes a game an homage to another work of fiction? What parody games are fun to play outside the joke? Where do you dr[...]Gaming has always taken its cues from other fiction, as Dungeons & Dragons itself comes from classic fantasy fiction. But what makes a game an homage to another work of fiction? What parody games are fun to play outside the joke? Where do you draw the line between influence and homage?
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Our Guest
Robert Morris
Roan
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What We’ve Been Playing Lately
Double Feature (Darryl, Ross)
Cards Against Humanity (Darryl, Ross)
Mass Effect (Darryl)
Shadowrun: Returns (Darryl)
Shadows Angelus (Robert)
HERO System (Robert)
Pathfinder (Robert)
Kingmaker Adventure Path (Robert)
Shaintar (Ross)
Valkyria Chronicles (Ross)
Homage and Parody Games
Jovian Chronicles
Paranoia
Delta Green
Traveller
Villains and Vigilantes
Top Secret
Tunnels and Trolls
JadeClaw (Now IronClaw)
Big Eyes Small Mouth
Cute and Fuzzy Seizure Monsters
Cartoon Action Hour
Spycraft
All Flesh Must Be Eaten
Teenagers from Outer Space
Macho Women with Guns
Fung Shui
Hong Kong Action Theater
Toon
Lucha Libre Hero
Conspiracy X
Alshard
Ponyfinder
Warhammer 40K
Rogue Trader
Warmachine
Witchfire Trilogy
BattleTech
Heavy Gear
Hackmaster
Kingdoms of Kalamar
Knights of the Dinner Table
Munchkin (We forgot to bring this up on the show)
Shadowrun
Snatcher
Metal Gear Solid
Dragonball Xenoverse
Bunnies and Burrows
Vampire: The Masquerade
Deadlands
Grimm
Bounty Head BebopPodcastGamer\'s TavernyesnoEpisode 54: Long-Term Campaigns, or I Think I Drowned a Bearhttp://gamerstavern.org/episode-54-long-term-campaigns-or-i-think-i-drowned-a-bear/
http://gamerstavern.org/episode-54-long-term-campaigns-or-i-think-i-drowned-a-bear/#commentsFri, 01 Jan 2016 22:00:38 +0000http://gamerstavern.org/?p=964Do you want to go the long haul with your gaming session? I’m not talking weeks or months, but years with the same characters in the same world? Michael Surbrook joins us to help you realize that dream with advice on how to plan out long campaigns, how to avoid over-prepping, how to push through the quagmire, and more.

Note: This episode was recorded on December 23, 2014. Yes, over a year ago.

]]>http://gamerstavern.org/episode-54-long-term-campaigns-or-i-think-i-drowned-a-bear/feed/20:00:01Do you want to go the long haul with your gaming session? I’m not talking weeks or months, but years with the same characters in the same world? Michael Surbrook joins us to help you realize that dream with advice on how to plan out long campa[...]Do you want to go the long haul with your gaming session? I’m not talking weeks or months, but years with the same characters in the same world? Michael Surbrook joins us to help you realize that dream with advice on how to plan out long campaigns, how to avoid over-prepping, how to push through the quagmire, and more.
Note: This episode was recorded on December 23, 2014. Yes, over a year ago.
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Fantasy Hero Complete
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(Note: At the time of recording, Larger Than Life was in the Kickstarter stage of publishing. The Kickstarter was successful and it is out now!)
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Five Nights at Freddie’s (Darryl)
Pathfinder (Darryl)
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition (Ross)
Birthright (Ross)
Grand Theft Auto 5 (Ross)
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Ironclaw (Michael)
Fantasy Craft (Michael)
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Shadows Angeles
Gamer’s Tavern Superhero Games
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Day in the Life: Gaming the Downtime
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